Fruit Salad

16x20 inch Black & White print on Epson Art Cotton Smooth 250 gram paper. From the NYC Village Halloween Parade, 1982–86.

This black-and-white photograph, captured on Kodak Tri-X film with a 35mm Pentax, immortalizes the irreverent and bawdy spirit of the NYC Village Halloween Parade during the mid-1980s. Bathed in the stark, high-contrast light of a Norman 200B strobe, two parade participants march through the streets in white costumes adorned with anatomical visual puns made of vegetables. These celebrators lift their aprons to reveal the humorous arrangements, their joyful laughter partially captured at the top of the frame. To the left, a man in a quilted jacket and spectacles stands as a quiet observer, his attention fixed on the whimsical procession as it passes through the dark Greenwich Village night. The grainy quality of the 35mm film enhances the raw, documentary feel of the scene, freezing a spontaneous instance of urban revelry and transgressive humor in a classic street photography style.